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> Outside of work I certainly live in a free society. Only if you define freedom as the capacity to do whatever is allowed or at least not expressly prohibited
by pinipedman 6y ago
> Outside of work I certainly live in a free society.
Only if you define freedom as the capacity to do whatever is allowed or at least not expressly prohibited by the state without legal consequence. Fortunately no one defines it that way. You cannot be simultaneously free and subject to state power. Companies simply add another layer atop the restrictions to freedom imposed by the state. You might feel freer outside of work, but don't make the mistake of thinking you are free.
Being satisfied with temporary respite from greater restrictions imposed at work is hardly something you should celebrate. Slaves in antebellum America enjoyed free time as well, presumably many were intelligent and self-aware enough to resent their situation despite this.
- umvi 6y ago> Only if you define freedom as the capacity to do whatever is allowed or at least not expressly prohibited by the state without legal consequence So how do you define freedom? Anarchy?
- pinipedman 6y agoIt is not defined as such, but it certainly only seems possible in the absence of the state. One well known dictionary phrases the relevant definition as "the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action". Many nation states (although the US is the worst offender in this regard) and those whose interests a given state protects, have quite successfully convinced their citizenry to celebrate the limitations placed upon them and further to mislabel these limitations as freedom.